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1 |
As You Like It
[I, 1] |
Charles |
100 |
They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many
merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood
of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day,
and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
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2 |
As You Like It
[I, 3] |
Celia |
514 |
To seek my uncle in the Forest of Arden.
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3 |
As You Like It
[II, 4] |
Rosalind |
733 |
Well, this is the Forest of Arden.
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4 |
As You Like It
[II, 6] |
Orlando |
881 |
Why, how now, Adam! No greater heart in thee? Live a
little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth
forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or
bring it for food to thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy
powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at the
arm's end. I will here be with thee presently; and if I bring thee
not something to eat, I will give thee leave to die; but if thou
diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!
thou look'st cheerly; and I'll be with thee quickly. Yet thou
liest in the bleak air. Come, I will bear thee to some shelter;
and thou shalt not die for lack of a dinner, if there live
anything in this desert. Cheerly, good Adam! Exeunt
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5 |
As You Like It
[II, 7] |
Jaques (lord) |
906 |
A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. A miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms- and yet a motley fool.
'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I; 'No, sir,' quoth he,
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock;
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags;
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine;
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer
That fools should be so deep contemplative;
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.
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6 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1122 |
Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love;
And thou, thrice-crowned Queen of Night, survey
With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.
O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books,
And in their barks my thoughts I'll character,
That every eye which in this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree,
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. Exit
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7 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Touchstone |
1232 |
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest
judge.
Enter CELIA, with a writing
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8 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1330 |
But doth he know that I am in this forest, and in man's
apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled?
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9 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1396 |
You should ask me what time o' day; there's no clock in
the forest.
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10 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1398 |
Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing
every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot
of Time as well as a clock.
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11 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1426 |
With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of
the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
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12 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1444 |
No; I will not cast away my physic but on those that are
sick. There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young
plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon
hawthorns and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the
name of Rosalind. If I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give
him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love
upon him.
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13 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1500 |
Go with me to it, and I'll show it you; and, by the way,
you shall tell me where in the forest you live. Will you go?
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14 |
As You Like It
[III, 3] |
Touchstone |
1536 |
Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness;
sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may be, I will
marry thee; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext,
the vicar of the next village, who hath promis'd to meet me in
this place of the forest, and to couple us.
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15 |
As You Like It
[III, 4] |
Celia |
1620 |
'Was' is not 'is'; besides, the oath of a lover is no
stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmer
of false reckonings. He attends here in the forest on the Duke,
your father.
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16 |
As You Like It
[IV, 3] |
Oliver |
2077 |
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?
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17 |
As You Like It
[IV, 3] |
Oliver |
2101 |
When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
Lo, what befell! He threw his eye aside,
And mark what object did present itself.
Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age,
And high top bald with dry antiquity,
A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
Lay sleeping on his back. About his neck
A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself,
Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
And with indented glides did slip away
Into a bush; under which bush's shade
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis
The royal disposition of that beast
To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead.
This seen, Orlando did approach the man,
And found it was his brother, his elder brother.
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18 |
As You Like It
[V, 1] |
Touchstone |
2192 |
A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext.
But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to
you.
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19 |
As You Like It
[V, 1] |
Touchstone |
2209 |
A fair name. Wast born i' th' forest here?
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20 |
As You Like It
[V, 4] |
Orlando |
2431 |
My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obscured in the circle of this forest.
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